Newsletter 158
May 1, 2014
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
* LICS-RELATED NEWS
ACM SIGLOG ANNOUNCEMENT
CSL-LICS'14
VIENNA SUMMER OF LOGIC ANNOUNCEMENT
* DEADLINES
Forthcoming Deadlines
* CALLS
WING 2014 - Call for Contributions
LCC 2014/IMMERMAN FEST - Call for Papers
LFMTP 2014 - Call for Papers
TGC 2014 - Call for Papers
UITP 2014 - Call for Papers
VERIFY 2014 - Call for Papers
FMCAD 2014 - Call for Papers
PSC 2014 - Call for Abstracts
HOPA 2014 - Call for Papers
LOLA 2014 - Call for Talk Proposals
GandALF 2014 - Call for Papers
RR-DC 2014 - Call for Participation
TURING 2012 - Call for Participation
AISS 2014 - Call for Papers
COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC (DMV-PTM 2014) - Call for Talk Proposals
DCM 2014 - Call for Papers
PrakashFest 2014 - Call for Participation
APLAS 2014 - Call for Papers
LOPSTR 2014 - Call for Papers
ESSLLI 2015 - Call for Course and Workshop Proposals
RP 2014 - Call for Papers
DOMAINS 2014 - Call for Abstracts
AVOCS 2014 - Call for Papers
AAA88 - Call for Participation
ICTAI 2014 - Call for Papers
LSB 5 - Call for Participation (Student/Postdoc Funding)
ISR 2014 - Call for Participation
JLAP on Formal Methods - Call for Papers
* JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS
Full Professorship in Computer Science at the University of Warwick
Software Engineering Vacancy at Radboud University Nijmegen
Postdoc at ENS Lyon
Postdoc at Queen Mary University of London
Two PhD positions in Information Security at ETH Zurich
ACM SIGLOG ANNOUNCEMENT
* The ACM has just chartered a Special Interest Group on Logic and
Computation (ACM SIGLOG). Its first Chair is Prakash Panangaden,
the other officers are Luke Ong (vice-Chair), Natarajan Shankar (Treasurer)
and Alexandra Silva (Secretary).
* The ACM-IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science will be the flagship
conference of SIGLOG. It will also actively seek association agreements
with other conferences in the field. A SIGLOG newsletter is planned to be
published quarterly in an electronic format with community news,
technical columns, members' feedback, conference reports, book reviews
and other items of interest to the community. The first issue will
go out to members in July.
* SIGLOG can be joined by filling in the form at
http://www.acm.org/membership/sig-pdfs/SIGLOG.pdf
The standard membership fee is $25 ($15 for students).
CSL-LICS'14
http://lics.siglog.org/csl-lics14/
* This year LICS and CSL will hold a joint conference for the first time,
as part of FLoC 2014 and the Vienna Summer of Logic. Tom Henzinger and
Dale Miller are co-chairs of a joint PC of 38 members. The proceedings
will be published by IEEE. The list of accepted papers and the preliminary
schedule are available online.
VIENNA SUMMER OF LOGIC ANNOUNCEMENT
http://vsl2014.at
* In the summer of 2014, Vienna will host the largest event in the history
of logic. The Vienna Summer of Logic (VSL) will consist of twelve large
conferences and numerous workshops, attracting an expected number of 2500
researchers from all over the world. The conferences and workshops will deal
with the main theme, logic, from three important aspects: logic in computer
science, mathematical logic and logic in artificial intelligence.
This unique event will be organized by the Kurt Goedel Society at Vienna
University of Technology from July 9 to 24, 2014.
* KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Franz Baader (Technische Universitaet Dresden), Edmund Clarke (Carnegie
Mellon University), Christos Papadimitriou (University of California,
Berkeley) and Alex Wilkie (University of Manchester).
Dana Scott (Carnegie Mellon University) will speak in the opening session.
* LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE/FEDERATED LOGIC CONFERENCE (FLoC)
- 26th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV)
- 27th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF)
- 30th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP)
- 7th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR)
- 5th Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP)
- Joint meeting of the 23rd EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic
(CSL) and the 29th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS)
- 25th International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA)
joint with the 12th International Conference on Typed Lambda Calculi and
Applications (TLCA)
- 17th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability
Testing (SAT)
- FLoC Workshops
- FLoC Olympic Games (System Competitions)
* MATHEMATICAL LOGIC
- Logic Colloquium 2014
- Logic, Algebra and Truth Degrees 2014
- The Infinity Workshop
- Kurt Goedel Fellowship Competition
* LOGIC IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
- 14th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR)
- 27th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL)
- 15th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR)
- International Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Health Care 2014 (KR4HC)
* KURT GOEDEL RESEARCH PRIZE FELLOWSHIP COMPETITION
At the Vienna Summer of Logic, the Kurt Goedel Society will award three
fellowship prizes endowed with 100.000 Euro each to the winners of the Kurt
Goedel Research Prize Fellowship Competition "Logical Mind: Connecting
Foundations and Technology."
* FLOC OLYMPIC GAMES - CITIUS, MAIUS, POTENTIUS
The Federated Logic Conference (FLoC) 2014 will host the 1st FLoC Olympic
Games. Intended as a new FLoC tradition, the Games will bring together
a multitude of established solver competitions by different research
communities. In addition to the competitions, the Olympic Games will
facilitate the exchange of expertise between communities, and increase
the visibility and impact of state-of-the-art solver technology. The winners
in the competition categories will be awarded Kurt Goedel medals at the FLoC
Olympic Games award ceremonies.
DEADLINES
* WING 2014
Submission deadline: May 1, 2014
http://vsl2014.at/meetings/WING-index.html
* LCC 2014/IMMERMAN FEST
Abstract submission (3-4 pages): May 2, 2014
Student support application deadline: May 4, 2014
http://www.cs.swansea.ac.uk/lcc2014/
* LFMTP 2014
Paper submission: May 2, 2014
http://complogic.cs.mcgill.ca/lfmtp14/
* TGC 2014
Deadline for abstract submission: May 2, 2014
Deadline for paper submission: May 9, 2014
http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/tgc2014/
* UITP 2014
Paper submission: May 4, 2014
http://vsl2014.at/pages/UITP-index.html
* VERIFY 2014
Abstract submission deadline: May 5, 2014
http://vsl2014.at/verify
* FMCAD 2014
Abstract submission: May 6, 2014
Paper Submission: May 16, 2014
http://www.fmcad.org/FMCAD14
* PSC 2014
Abstract submission: May 6, 2014
http://vsl2014.at/psc/
* HOPA 2014
Submission deadline: May 9, 2014
http://hopa.cs.rhul.ac.uk
* LOLA 2014
Submission deadline: May 9, 2014
http://vsl2014.at/lola/
* GandALF 2014
Abstract submission: May 10, 2014
Paper submission: May 25, 2014
http://gandalf2014.di.univr.it
* RR-DC 2014
Application deadline: May 10, 2014
http://rr2014.di.uoa.gr/?q=node/24
* AISS 2014
Submission deadline: May 15, 2014
http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~goeller/AISS14/Algorithmics_on_Infinite-State_Systems.html
* COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC (DMV-PTM 2014)
Talk proposal deadline: May 15, 2014
PhD Student grants: June 1, 2014
http://www.math.uni.opole.pl/DMV-PTM2014/
* DCM 2014
Submission Deadline for Extended Abstracts: May 16, 2014
Submission Deadline for EPTCS Proceedings: September 15, 2014
http://vsl2014.at/pages/DCM-index.html
* APLAS 2014
Abstracts due: May 26, 2014 (Monday)
Submission due: June 2, 2014 (Monday)
http://www.math.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~garrigue/APLAS2014/
* LOPSTR 2014
Abstract submission: May 30, 2014
Paper/Extended abstract submission: June 6, 2014
http://www.iasi.cnr.it/events/lopstr14/
* ESSLLI 2015
Proposal submission deadline: June 1, 2014
http://esslli2015.org
* RP 2014
Submission deadline: June 4th, 2014
Presentation proposals: August 4th, 2014
http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/RP2014/
* DOMAINS 2014
Abstract submission: June 15, 2014
http://www.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~varacca/domains/Domains_XI
* AVOCS 2014
Submission (abstract for full paper): June 16, 2014
Submission (full papers): June 23, 2014
Submission (research ideas): August 7, 2014
http://www.utwente.nl/avocs2014
* ICTAI 2014
Paper submission: June 30, 2014
http://ictai2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy
* ISR 2014
Early registration deadline: July 15, 2014
http://isr2014.inf.utfsm.cl
* JLAP Special Issue on Formal Methods
Paper submission: July 15, 2014
5TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON INVARIANT GENERATION (WING 2014)
Call for Contributions
23 July 2014
Vienna, Austria
http://vsl2014.at/meetings/WING-index.html
* IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: 1 MAY 2014
Workshop: 23 July 2014
* ABOUT WING
The ability to automatically extract and synthesize auxiliary properties
of programs has had a profound effect on program analysis, testing, and
verification over the last several decades. A key impediment for program
verification is the overhead associated with providing, debugging, and
verifying auxiliary invariant annotations. Releasing the software
developer from this burden is crucial for ensuring the practical
relevance of program verification. In the context of testing, suitable
invariants have the potential of enabling high-coverage test-case
generation. Thus, invariant generation is a key ingredient in a broad
spectrum of tools that help to improve program reliability and
understanding. As the design and implementation of reliable software
remains an important issue, any progress in this area will have a
significant impact.
The increasing power of automated theorem proving and computer algebra
has opened new perspectives for computer-aided program verification; in
particular for the automatic generation of inductive assertions in order
to reason about loops and recursion. Especially promising breakthroughs
are invariant generation techniques by Groebner bases, quantifier
elimination, and algorithmic combinatorics, which can be used in
conjunction with model checking, theorem proving, static analysis, and
abstract interpretation. The aim of this workshop is to bring together
researchers from these diverse fields.
* PAPER SUBMISSIONS
We encourage submissions on work in progress, new ideas, tools under
development, as well as work by PhD students, to be presented at WING
2014. Submissions should adhere to the EasyChair document class, and be
between 6 and 15 pages.
Submissions need not be original. Extended versions of submissions may
have been published previously, or submitted concurrently with or after
WING 2014 to another workshop, conference or a journal.
* PROGRAM CHAIRS
Reiner Haehnle (TU Darmstadt) -- chair
Einar Broch Johnsen (University of Oslo) -- chair
15 INT. WORKSHOP ON LOGIC AND COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY AND WORKSHOP IN HONOR OF NEIL IMMERMAN'S 60TH BIRTHDAY (LCC 2014/IMMERMAN FEST)
Call for Papers
http://www.cs.swansea.ac.uk/lcc2014/
July 12-13, Vienna, Austria
(Affiliated with Vienna Summer of Logic and FloC 2014.)
* DATES
Abstract submission (3-4 pages) deadline: May 2nd, 2014
Student support application deadline: May 4th, 2014
2014 Authors' notification: May 19th, 2014
Support decisions notification: May 19th, 2014
* THE LCC 2014/IMMERMANFEST WORKSHOP
The program will consist of a first day (July 12th) of both invited talks
and contributed talks selected by the program committee (based on
submitted abstracts), and a second day (July 13th) devoted entirely to
invited talks in celebration of Neil Immerman's 60th birthday.
* INVITED SPEAKERS
Day 1: Sam Buss, Georg Moser;
Day 2: Eric Allender, Anuj Dawar, Phokion Kolaitis, Benjamin Rossman,
Mooly Sagiv, Nicole Schweikardt.
* AIM
LCC meetings are aimed at foundational interconnections between
logic and computational complexity, including topics such as:
finite model theory, proof complexity, bounded arithmetic, implicit
computational complexity, complexity of higher types, and logic and
complexity aspects of verification and database theory. Neil Immerman
has made many inspiring contributions to the connections betweens logic
and complexity. This year, day two of LCC 2014 will honor Neil's 60th
birthday with a series of invited lectures.
* PROCEEDINGS
There will be no published proceedings for LCC 2014; we welcome
submissions of abstracts (3-4 pages) that can be based on work submitted or
published elsewhere. All submissions via Easychair at:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lcc2014
For additional information see http://www.cs.swansea.ac.uk/lcc/
or email lcc2014@easychair.org
* STUDENT/POSTDOC PARTICIPATION FUNDING
We have secured grant funding from various sources for student/postdoc
participation at the LCC2014 / ImmermanFest Meeting.
This includes an NSF grant for funding participation by
US-based students, and smaller funds for other students.
For information on eligibility and selection criteria, and
the procedure for applying for student funding (deadline May 4th), visit:
http://www.cs.swansea.ac.uk/lcc2014/funding.html
9TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON LOGICAL FRAMEWORKS AND META-LANGUAGES: THEORY AND PRACTICE (LFMTP 2014)
Call for Papers
July 17, 2014
Vienna, Austria
http://complogic.cs.mcgill.ca/lfmtp14/
Affiliated with CSL-LICS 2014 and IJCAR 2014
as part of FLoC and VSL
* DESCRIPTION
Logical frameworks and meta-languages form a common
substrate for representing, implementing, and reasoning about a wide
variety of deductive systems of interest in logic and computer
science. Their design and implementation on the one hand and their use
in reasoning tasks ranging from the correctness of software to the
properties of formal computational systems on the other hand have been
the focus of considerable research over the last two decades. This
workshop will bring together designers, implementors, and
practitioners to discuss various aspects impinging on the structure
and utility of logical frameworks, including the treatment of variable
binding, inductive and co-inductive reasoning techniques and the
expressivity and lucidity of the reasoning process.
* TOPICS
LFMTP 2014 will provide researchers a forum to present
state-of-the-art techniques and discuss progress in areas such as the
following:
- Encoding and reasoning about the meta-theory of programming
languages and related formally specified systems.
- Theoretical and practical issues concerning the treatment of
variable binding, especially the representation of, and reasoning
about, datatypes defined from binding signatures.
- Logical treatments of inductive and co-inductive definitions and
associated reasoning techniques.
- New theory contributions: canonical and substructural frameworks,
contextual frameworks, proof-theoretic foundations supporting binders,
functional programming over logical frameworks, homotopy type theory.
- Applications of logical frameworks, e.g., in proof-carrying
architectures such as proof-carrying authorization.
- Techniques for programming with binders in functional programming
languages such as Haskell, OCaml, or Agda and logic programming
languages such as lambda Prolog or Alpha-Prolog.
with encoding programming languages theory will be particularly
welcome.
* SUBMISSIONS
In addition to regular papers, we also solicit "work in
progress" reports, in a broad sense. Those do not need to report
original or fully polished research results, but should be interesting
for the community at large.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission: May 2
Notification: June 3
Final papers due: June 19
Workshop: July 17
* PROCEEDINGS
Accepted regular papers will be included in the
proceedings, which will be published in the ACM International
Conference Proceedings Series, available in the ACM Digital
Library. Authors are encouraged to publish auxiliary material with
their paper (technical appendixes, source code, scripts, test data,
etc.).
* PROGRAM CHAIRS
Amy Felty, Co-Chair (University of Ottawa)
Brigitte Pientka, Co-Chair (McGill University)
9TH SYMPOSIUM ON TRUSTWORTHY GLOBAL COMPUTING (TGC 2014)
Call for Papers
http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/tgc2014/
5-6 September, 2014
Rome, Italy (co-located with Concur 2014)
* SCOPE
The Symposium on Trustworthy Global Computing is an international annual
venue dedicated to secure and reliable computation in the so-called global
computing, i.e., those computational abstractions emerging in large-scale
infrastructures such as service-oriented architectures, autonomic systems,
and cloud computing.
* HIGHLIGHTS
- Parallel submission to CONCUR 2014 allowed (see submission instructions)
- Keynote speakers: Veronique Cortier (CNRS, France) and Catuscia Palamidessi
(INRIA Saclay and LIX, France)
- Deadline for abstract submission: May 2 2014
* TOPICS
The TGC series focuses on providing frameworks, tools, algorithms, and
protocols for rigorously designing, verifying, and implementing open-ended,
large-scaled applications. The related models of computation incorporate
code and data mobility over distributed networks that connect heterogeneous
devices and have dynamically changing topologies.
We solicit papers in all areas of global computing, including (but not
limited to):
- languages, semantic models, and abstractions
- security, trust, and reliability
- privacy and information flow policies
- algorithms and protocols
- resource management
- model checking, theorem proving, and static analysis
- tool support
* IMPORTANT DATES
- Deadline for abstract submission: May 2 2014
- Deadline for paper submission: May 9 2014 (STRICT!)
- Notification to authors: June 27 2014
* SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Contributions must be in PostScript or PDF format and consist of no more
than 15 pages in the Springer's LNCS style. Clearly marked appendixes may
include additional details and proofs omitted due to space limitations.
Submitted papers must describe work unpublished in refereed venues, and not
submitted for publication elsewhere, with the exception of CONCUR. Concurrent
submissions to CONCUR 2014 and TGC 2014 are allowed, and in fact encouraged,
for those papers that may potentially enhance both conferences. Authors of
such double submissions should flag them to the program chairs at the time
of submission (by choosing the Regular Paper submitted to CONCUR paper
category). Reviews may be shared between CONCUR and TGC. CONCUR timeline
is ahead of TGC; submissions accepted by CONCUR will be considered
automatically withdrawn from TGC.
* POST-PROCEEDINGS
We plan to publish post-proceedings shortly after the conference, to give
the authors the opportunity to take into account discussions and suggestions
at the conference.
The post-proceedings will appear as a volume in Springer Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS) series.
* PC CHAIRS
- Matteo Maffei (CISPA, Saarland University, Germany)
- Emilio Tuosto (University of Leicester, UK)
11th WORKSHOP ON USER INTERFACES FOR THEOREM PROVERS (UITP 2014)
Call for Papers
July 17, 2014
Vienna, Austria
http://vsl2014.at/pages/UITP-index.html
* SCOPE
The User Interfaces for Theorem Provers (UITP) workshop series
provides a forum for researchers interested in improving human
interaction with interactive and automated deduction systems in a
broad sense.
* PAPER SUBMISSION
Papers should describe previously unpublished work
(completed or in progress), and be at least 4 pages and at most
12 pages. We encourage concise and relevant papers. Submissions should be
in PDF format, and typeset with the EPTCS LaTeX document class (which
can be downloaded from http://style.eptcs.org/). Submission should be
done via EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=uitp14).
Papers will be published after the workshop in the
Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
(EPTCS - http://www.eptcs.org/).
* TOPICS:
- Experiments and evaluation of prover interfaces
- Application-specific interaction mechanisms
- Interfaces for expert systems
- Web interfaces for deduction tools
- New designs for prover interfaces
- Performance/responsiveness of user interface for theorem provers
- Proof scripting languages
- Proof formats for authoring, exchanging and presenting proofs
- Domain-specific languages (DSLs) for interfacing with reasoning tools
- Infrastructure for sharing and using benchmarks for theorem proving
- Summarization of proofs
- Visualization of proofs
- Visualization of large structured deduction problems
- User-friendly repositories of formal mathematical knowledge
- Mobile interfaces (iPhone or Android clients for deduction tools)
- System descriptions
* IMPORTANT DATES
- Paper submission: May 4
- Author notification: May 25
- Final papers: May 31
- Workshop: July 17
8TH INTERNATIONAL VERIFICATION WORKSHOP (VERIFY'14)
Call for Papers
in connection with IJCAR 2014 at FLoC 2014
July 23-24, 2014, Vienna, Austria
http://vsl2014.at/verify
* The formal verification of critical information systems has a long
tradition as one of the main areas of application for automated
theorem proving. Nevertheless, the area is of still growing importance
as the number of computers affecting everyday life and the complexity
of these systems are both increasing. The purpose of the VERIFY
workshop series is to discuss problems arising during the formal
modeling and verification of information systems and to investigate
suitable solutions. Possible perspectives include those of automated
theorem proving, tool support, system engineering, and applications.
* The VERIFY workshop series aims at bringing together people who are
interested in the development of safety and security critical systems,
in formal methods, in the development of automated theorem proving
techniques, and in the development of tool support. Practical
experiences gained in realistic verifications are of interest to the
automated theorem proving community and new theorem proving techniques
should be transferred into practice. The overall objective of the
VERIFY workshops is to identify open problems and to discuss possible
solutions under the theme
* What are the verification problems? What are the deduction techniques?
The 2014 edition of VERIFY aims for extending the verification methods
for processes implemented in hard- and software to processes that may
well include computer-assistance, but have a large part or a frequent
interaction with non-computer-based process steps. Hence the 2014
edition will run under the focus theme "Verification Beyond IT Systems".
* Submissions are encouraged in one of the following two categories:
A. Regular paper: Submissions in this category should describe
previously unpublished work (completed or in progress), including
descriptions of research, tools, and applications. Papers must be
5-14 pages long (in EasyChair style) or 6-15 pages long (in
Springer LNCS style).
B. Discussion papers: Submissions in this category are intended to
initiate discussions and hence should address controversial issues,
and may include provocative statements. Papers must be 3-14 pages
long (in EasyChair style) or 3-15 pages long (in Springer LNCS
style).
* Important dates
Abstract Submission Deadline: May 5th, 2014 (extended)
Paper Submission Deadline: May 5th, 2014 (extended)
Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2014
Final version due: May 27, 2014
Workshop date: July 23-24, 2014
* Submission is via EasyChair:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=verify2014
* Program chairs
Serge Autexier (DFKI) - chair
Bernhard Beckert (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) - chair
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FORMAL METHODS IN COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN (FMCAD 2014)
Call for Papers
Lausanne, Switzerland, October 21-24, 2014
http://www.fmcad.org/FMCAD14
* CONFERENCE
The conference includes the FMCAD student forum;
it is collocated with MEMOCODE, DIFTS, and the
Hardware Model Checking Competition 2014 FMCAD Edition.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract Submission: Tuesday, May 6
Paper Submission: Friday, May 16
Author Response Period: June 23-27
Author Notification: July 25
Camera-Ready Version: August 15
Conference: October 21-24
* SCOPE
FMCAD 2014 is the 14th in a series of conferences on the
theory and application of formal methods in computer-aided
design and verification of computer systems and related
topics. FMCAD provides a leading international forum to
researchers and practitioners in academia and industry for
presenting and discussing novel methods, technologies,
theoretical results, tools, and open challenges in formal
reasoning.
* COLOCATION
FMCAD 2014 will be co-located with MEMOCODE, the ACM/IEEE
International Conference on Formal Methods and Models for
Codesign, in Lausanne, Switzerland. MEMOCODE will take
place from October 19 to 20, followed by a joint
FMCAD/MEMOCODE tutorial day on October 21. FMCAD will
continue from October 22 to 24, 2014.
* TOPICS OF INTEREST
FMCAD welcomes submission of papers reporting original
research on advances in all aspects of formal methods
technology and its application to computer-aided design.
* SUBMISSIONS
Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format
through a link available on the FMCAD web site
http://fmcad.org/FMCAD14
Two categories of papers can be submitted: regular papers (8
pages) and short papers (4 pages) containing ideas and
results that can be described succinctly. Both regular and
short papers must use the IEEE Transactions format on
letter-size paper with a 10-point font size.
Submissions must contain original research that has not been
previously published, nor concurrently submitted for
publication. Any partial overlap with published or
concurrently submitted papers must be clearly indicated. If
experimental results are reported, authors are strongly
encouraged to provide adequate access to their data so that
results can be independently verified.
* STUDENT FORUM
FMCAD 2014 will host a Student Forum that provides a
platform for graduate students at any career stage to
introduce their research to the wider Formal Methods
community, and solicit feedback. Submissions for the event
must be short reports describing research ideas or ongoing
work that the student is currently pursuing, and must be
within the scope of FMCAD. Work, part of which has been
previously published, will be considered; the novel aspect
to be addressed in future work must be clearly described in
such cases.
Limited funds will be available for travel assistance for
students with accepted contributions.
More details are available at
http://www.fmcad.org/FMCAD14/student-forum.shtml
* IMPORTANT DATES FOR STUDENT FORUM
Submission Deadline: Sunday, June 08
Acceptance notification: Sunday, Aug 03
Forum date: Monday, Oct 20
* CO-LOCATED EVENTS
The following meetings will be co-located with this year's edition:
-- MEMOCODE 2014, the ACM/IEEE International Conference on
Formal Methods and Models for Codesign
( http://www.memocode-conference.com )
-- DIFTS 2014, International Workshop on Design and
Implementation of Formal Tools and Systems
( http://fmgroup.polito.it/cabodi/difts2014/ )
-- We are also proud to host this year's
Hardware Model Checking Competition 2014 FMCAD Edition
* ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
PROGRAM CHAIRS
Koen Claessen, Chalmers University of Technology
Viktor Kuncak, EPFL
LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR
Viktor Kuncak, EPFL
PUBLICATION CHAIR
Barbara Jobstmann, EPFL, Jasper DA, and CNRS/Verimag
STUDENT FORUM CHAIR
Ruzica Piskac, Yale University
PUBLICITY CHAIR
Mitra Purandare, IBM Research Lab, Zurich
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON PROOF, STRUCTURE AND COMPUTATION (PSC 2014)
Call for Abstracts
CSL-LICS Affiliated Workshop
July 17-18, 2014, Vienna, Austria
http://vsl2014.at/psc/
* HIGHLIGHTS
- PSC welcomes submissions of short abstracts: 1-2 pages in LNCS format
- Invited speakers: Ulrich Berger and Martin Escardo
- Post-proceedings are planned for a journal special issue
* IMPORTANT DATES
6 May 2014 ............. Abstract submission (extended)
16 May 2014 ............ Notification to authors
16 June 2014 ........... Camera-ready abstracts for electronic proceedings
17-18 July 2014 ........ PSC in Vienna
* SCOPE
The extraction of computational content from proofs has a long tradition in
logic, but usually depends on a concrete encoding that allows us to turn
proofs into algorithms. A recent trend in this field is the departure from
such encoding which not only makes it simpler to represent the mathematical
content, but also makes the extracted computational content encoding
independent. This shift in focus allows us to focus on what is relevant:
the computational aspects of proofs and the specification (not representation)
of the structures involved. We now have growing evidence that this move
from representations (e.g. the signed digit representation of the reals)
to axioms (e.g. of the real numbers) is possible. This development largely
parallels the step from assembler to high level languages in programming.
As a by-product this move has already opened up the possibility to gain
computational information from axiomatic proofs in more abstract and
genuinely structural areas of mathematics such as algebra and topology.
* INVITED SPEAKERS
Ulrich Berger (Swansea University, UK)
Martin Escardo (University of Birmingham, UK)
* SUBMISSIONS
We welcome 1-2-page abstracts presenting (finished, ongoing, or if
clearly stated even published) work on proof, structure, and computation.
Particular topics of interest are
- Proof Theory
- Program Extraction
- Constructive Mathematics
- Topology and Computation
- Realisability Semantics
- Coalgebra and Computation
- Categorical Models
- Domain Theory
- Interval Analysis
* SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Abstracts are invited of ongoing, finished, or (if clearly stated) even
published work on a topic relevant to the workshop. The abstracts will
appear in electronic pre-proceedings that will be distributed at the meeting.
Abstracts (at most 2 pages, in LNCS style) are to be be submitted
electronically in PDF via EasyChair
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=psc2014
Accepted communications must be presented at the workshop by one of the
authors.
* SPECIAL ISSUE
We plan to invite extended versions of selected abstract with original
work to post-proceedings in a journal special issue. They will be
peer-reviewed according to the standard journal policy.
* CHAIRS
Peter Schuster (University of Leeds, UK), PC chair
Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, Austria), PC chair
* ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Dirk Pattinson (ANU, Australia), PC chair
Peter Schuster (University of Leeds, UK), PC chair
Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, Austria), PC chair
* CONTACT
psc2014@easychair.org
WORKSHOP ON HIGHER-ORDER PROGRAM ANALYSIS (HOPA)
Call for Papers
18th July, Part of FLoC 2014, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
http://hopa.cs.rhul.ac.uk
* The HOPA workshop aims to bring together the various growing communities
involved in the analysis of higher-order programs. The focus of the workshop
is both on tools and techniques for practical analysis, and on the
dissemination of new theoretical results.
* IMPORTANT DATES
- Submission deadline: 9th May, 2014.
- Notification: 21st May, 2014.
- USB-ready versions: 30th May, 2014.
- Main event: 18th July, 2014.
* INVITED SPEAKERS
Anders Moeller, Aarhus University, Denmark,
Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
5TH WORKSHOP ON SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS OF LOW-LEVEL LANGUAGES (LOLA 2014)
Call for Talk Proposals
Sunday 13th July 2014
Vienna, Austria
A satellite workshop of CSL/LICS 2014 at the Vienna Summer of Logic
http://vsl2014.at/lola/
* OBJECTIVES
It has been understood since the late 1960s that tools and structures
arising in mathematical logic and proof theory can usefully be applied
to the design of high level programming languages, and to the development
of reasoning principles for such languages. Yet low level languages,
such as machine code, and the compilation of high level languages into
a low level ones have traditionally been seen as having little or no
essential connection to logic. However, a fundamental discovery of this
past decade has been that low level languages are also governed by
logical principles. From this key observation has emerged an active and
fascinating new research area at the frontier of logic and computer science.
The practically-motivated design of logics reflecting the structure of
low-level languages (such as heaps, registers and code pointers) and
low-level properties of programs (such as resource usage) goes hand in hand
with the some of the most advanced contemporary researches in semantics
and proof theory, including classical realizability and forcing, double
orthogonality, parametricity, linear logic, game semantics, uniformity,
categorical semantics, explicit substitutions, abstract machines,
implicit complexity and sublinear programming.
* TOPICS
The LOLA workshop, affiliated with CSL-LICS, will bring together
researchers interested in many aspects of the relationship between
logic and low level languages and programs. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:
- Typed assembly languages,
- Certified assembly programming,
- Certified and certifying compilation,
- Proof-carrying code,
- Program optimization,
- Modal logic and realizability in machine code,
- Realizability and double orthogonality in assembly code,
- Parametricity, modules and existential types,
- General references, Kripke models and recursive types,
- Continuations and concurrency,
- Implicit complexity, sublinear programming and Turing machines,
- Closures and explicit substitutions,
- Linear logic and separation logic,
- Game semantics, abstract machines and hardware synthesis,
- Monoidal and premonoidal categories, traces and effects.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: Friday 9 May 2014
Author notification: Wednesday 21 May 2014
Workshop: Sunday 13th July 2014
* SUBMISSION INFORMATION
LOLA is an informal workshop aiming at a high degree of useful interaction
amongst the participants, welcoming proposals for talks on work in progress,
overviews of larger programmes, position presentations and short tutorials
as well as more traditional research talks describing new results.
The programme committee will select the workshop presentations from
submitted proposals, which may take the form either of a two page
abstract or of a longer (published or unpublished) paper describing
completed work. The submissions will be made by easychair at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lola2014
5TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GAMES, AUTOMATA, LOGICS AND FORMAL VERIFICATION (GandALF 2014)
Preliminary Call for Papers
September 10 - 12, 2014,
Verona, Italy
http://gandalf2014.di.univr.it
* AIM
The aim of the symposium is to bring together researchers from academia
and industry which are actively working in the fields of Games, Automata,
Logics, and Formal Verification. The idea is to cover an ample spectrum of
themes, ranging from theory to applications, and stimulate
cross-fertilization. Papers focused on formal methods are especially
welcome. Authors are invited to submit original research or tool papers on
all relevant topics in these areas. Papers discussing new ideas that are
at an early stage of development are also welcome.
* TOPICS
The topics covered by the conference include, but are not limited to:
- Automata Theory
- Automated Deduction
- Computational aspects of Game Theory
- Concurrency and Distributed computation
- Decision Procedures
- Deductive, Compositional, and Abstraction Techniques for Verification
- Finite Model Theory
- First-order and Higher-order Logics
- Formal Languages
- Formal Methods for Systems Biology, Hybrid, Embedded, and Mobile Systems
- Games and Automata for Verification
- Game Semantics
- Logical aspects of Computational Complexity
- Logics of Programs
- Modal and Temporal Logics
- Model Checking
- Models of Reactive and Real-Time Systems
- Program Analysis and Software Verification
- Run-time Verification and Testing
- Specification and Verification of Finite and Infinite-state Systems
- Synthesis
* IMPORTANT DATES
May 10th Abstract submission
May 25th Paper submission
June 25th Notification
July 25th Camera-ready submission
* PUBLICATIONS
The conference proceedings will be published by Electronic Proceedings in
Theoretical Computer Science. A special issue of a major international
journal to publish an extended and revised version of the best symposium
papers is also under consideration.
* SUBMISSIONS
Submitted papers should not exceed fourteen (14) pages using EPTCS format,
be unpublished and contain original research. For papers reporting
experimental results, authors are encouraged to make their data available
with their submission. Submissions must be in PDF or PS format and will be
handled via EasyChair
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gandalf2014).
* PC CHAIRS
- Adriano Peron, University Federico II of Napoli, Italy
- Carla Piazza, University of Udine, Italy
DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEB REASONING AND RULE SYSTEMS (RR-DC 2014)
Call for Participation
http://rr2014.di.uoa.gr/?q=node/24
Sept 15-17, Athens, Greece
* AIMS
The Doctoral Consortium of the International Conference on Web Reasoning
and Rule Systems (RR-DC) follows the success of its former editions held
in Vienna (Austria) in September 2012, and in Mannheim (Germany) in July
2013. The RR-DC 2014 will take place during RR 2014 in Athens, Greece.
The RR-DC is intended for PhD students who are engaged in research in the
field of Web Reasoning and Rules Systems and related areas. The aim of the
RR-DC is to provide doctoral students with the unique opportunity to present
and discuss their research directions and being supported in establishing
fruitful collaborations with prominent researchers working in areas
related to Web Reasoning.
* IMPORTANT DATES
- Application Deadline: May 10th, 2014 <<< EXTENDED
- Notification: May 24th, 2014
- Camera Ready: June 6th, 2014
* GRANTS
RR will be offering scholarships to participants to partially cover
registration and/or accommodation fees. An additional number of grants
is reserved to US Students to attend RR2014 and the co-located RW2014
summer school. Applications instructions to obtain a grant are available
from http://rr2014.di.uoa.gr/?q=grants
* SUBMISSION
To apply for participation to the RR2014 Doctoral Consortium students
are asked to submit
1. Cover Letter (max 1 page)
2. Research Summary (max 7 pages) of their PhD research
3. Letter of Recommendation
The exact requirements can be found on the website.
* BEST DC CONTRIBUTION AWARD
The DC program committee will review student's applications and will
assign the "Best RR-DC 2014 Contribution" award among participants.
The award-winning contributor will present in the RR 2013 main program
as regular (15 min) presentation, and will have the option to have
its research summary included in the proceedings of the main conference
in the form of a two-page extended abstract.
* CHAIR
Francesco Ricca, University of Calabria, Italy
TURING CENTENARY RESEARCH PROJECT: MIND, MECHANISM AND MATHEMATICS
Call for Participation
2nd Workshop, Columbia University,
New York City, May 12-14, 2014
http://turing.colorwork.com
http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/give-page.php?710
* VENUE
The second annual workshop of the Turing Centenary Research Project will
be held May 12-14 at the Morningside Campus of Columbia University, New
York City. The research project, funded by the John Templeton Foundation,
is a multidisciplinary activity focused on a number of issues related to
computability in a broad sense - see:
http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/give-page.php?704
The first workshop was held in Milan, Italy, in June 2013:
http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/give-page.php?709
This more public event is open to all. As well as short talks from the
winners of the 2012 Turing Centenary competition, this exciting event
features a number of distinguished speakers from a spectrum disciplines.
The meeting will be of particular interest to participants from
mathematics, computer science, biology, linguistics, artificial
intelligence, philosophy - extending to those concerned with
computability-theoretic issues in the humanities, arts and social
sciences.
* PROVISIONAL INVITED SPEAKERS
ERIC ALLENDER (Rutgers), MARTIN DAVIS (New York University and UC
Berkeley), RAY DOUGHERTY (New York University), STUART KAUFFMAN
(University of Vermont), BENJAMIN KOO (Tsinghua University), RUSSELL
MILLER (City University of New York), KLAUS SUTNER (Carnegie Mellon
University), STEPHEN WOLFRAM (Wolfram Research)
* REGISTRATION
Please feel free to register at
http://turing.colorwork.com/Schedule.html
for all events you are interested in attending. Registration is free -
a small (optional) cash donation on the day is invited.
Further information from the Co-Chairs:
S Barry Cooper pmt6sbc@leeds.ac.uk, Gautam Dasgupta gd18@columbia.edu
WORKSHOP ON ALGORITHMICS OF INFINITE-STATE SYSTEMS (AISS 2014)
Call for Presentations
July 18, 2014, Vienna, Austria
satellite workshop of CSL-LICS 2014
http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~goeller/AISS14/Algorithmics_on_Infinite-State_Systems.html
* The workshop provides the opportunity to assess recent scientific
advances and exchange ideas on the algorithmic theory of infinite state
systems. Infinite state systems arise in many areas of computer science.
Typical examples are recursive programs, communicating systems with
unbounded buffers, and real time systems. Important algorithmic techniques
dealing with infinite state systems include model checking, reachability
and equivalence checking.
* We invite submissions on the following topics (no order) as well as thereto
related areas: abstract machine models for infinite state systems (e.g.
pushdown systems, higher-order pushdown systems, counter automata), Petri
nets, automatic structures, well-structured transition systems, rewriting
formalisms for infinite state systems (e.g. ground tree rewriting),
higher-order recursion schemes, algorithmic model theory, games on infinite
arenas, model checking for infinite state systems (e.g. model checking
for MSO, FO, CTL, LTL, mu-calculus), equivalence checking for infinite
state systems (e.g. bisimulation equivalence checking) decomposition
techniques for infinite state systems, (e.g. Feferman/Vaught decompositions)
reachability in infinite state systems
* INVITED SPEAKERS
Joel Ouaknine (University of Oxford) and Olivier Serre (Universite Paris 7)
* SUBMISSIONS
Submissions should consist of an abstract of at most 4 pages. We do not plan
to have a published proceedings or special issue for a journal. Theorefore,
already published recent work is welcome too. Submissions should be made via
the easy chair system:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiss2014
* IMPORTANT DATES
Submissions by May 15, 2014
Notification by June 1, 2014
COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC (DMV-PTM JOINT MEETING 2014)
Call for Talk Proposals
Poznań, 17-19 September 2014
http://www.math.uni.opole.pl/DMV-PTM2014/
Thematic Session as part of the DMV-PTM Mathematical Joint Meeting
* Traditionally, logic was a subject of philosophy and later a tool
for mathematics. In the last fifty years, however, logic has become
an integral part of theoretical computer science and several
important subjects in logic are being developed in close interaction
with computer science. Examples include finite and computational
model theory, automata theory, computer-aided verification, database
theory and many other fields.
* In many of these fields, there is a strong computational aspect in
the logical tools facilitated. German and Polish researchers have
taken an important role in this development and work actively on
applications of logic in computer science.
* We are therefore organising a special session on computational logic
as part of a general meeting of the German and Polish Mathematical
Societies. The aim of this session is to bring together logicians,
mathematicians and computer scientists who use logic as a
fundamental tool in their research, especially with a computational
component.
* For further information including a tentative schedule please see
http://www.math.uni.opole.pl/DMV-PTM2014/index.php
* CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
- Mikolaj Bojanczyk (University of Warsaw)
- Wojciech Buszkowski (AMU Poznan)
- Martin Hofmann (LMU Munich)
- Eryk Kopczynski (University of Warsaw)
- Carsten Lutz (University of Bremen)
- Martin Otto (TU Darmstadt)
- Leszek Pacholski (University of Wroclaw)
- Jakob Rehof (TU Dortmund)
- Thomas Schwentick (TU Dortmund)
* SUBMISSION
If you wish to participate and to give a talk, please send an email
to any of the organisers by May 15, 2014.
* REGISTRATION
To register please see http://dmv.ptm.org.pl/index.html.
* ORGANISERS
- Stephan Kreutzer (Berlin), stephan.kreutzer@tu-berlin.de
- Lidia Tendera (Opole), tendera@math.uni.opole.pl
- Pawel Urzyczyn (Warsaw), urzy@mimuw.edu.pl
* We can offer a small amount of financial support to PhD-students. If
you wish to apply, please write an email with subject DMV-PTM
session to im@math.uni.opole.pl giving your name, affiliation,
title of thesis, supervisor and year you are in. Deadline for
applications is June 1, 2014.
10TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON DEVELOPMENTS IN COMPUTATIONAL MODELS (DCM 2014)
First Call for Papers
July 13, 2014
Vienna, Austria
http://vsl2014.at/pages/DCM-index.html
* SCOPE
Several new models of computation have emerged in the last few years, and
many developments of traditional computational models have been proposed
with the aim of taking into account the new demands of computer systems
users and the new capabilities of computation engines. A new computational
model, or a new feature in a traditional one, usually is reflected in a new
family of programming languages, and new paradigms of software development.
DCM 2014 is the tenth in a series of international workshops focusing on new
computational models. The aim of this workshop is to bring together
researchers who are currently developing new computational models or
new features for traditional computational models, in order to foster their
interaction, to provide a forum for presenting new ideas and work in
progress, and to enable newcomers to learn about current activities in
this area. DCM 2014 will be a one-day satellite event of CSL-LICS 2014,
in the context of VSL 2014.
* TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics of interest include all abstract models of computation and their
properties, and their applications to the development of programming
languages and systems:
- functional calculi: lambda-calculus, rho-calculus, term and graph rewriting;
- quantum computation, including implementations and formal methods in quantum protocols;
- probabilistic computation and verification in modeling situations;
- chemical, biological and bio-inspired computation, including spatial models, self-assembly, growth models;
- general concurrent models including the treatment of mobility, trust, and security;
- infinitary models of computation;
- information-theoretic ideas in computing.
* IMPORTANT DATES
- Submission Deadline for Extended Abstracts: 16 May 2014
- Notification: 6 June 2014
- Workshop: 13 July 2014
- Submission Deadline for EPTCS Proceedings: 15 September 2014
* SUBMISSIONS
Submit your paper in PDF format via the conference EasyChair submission page:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcm2014
Submissions should be an abstract of at most 5 pages, written in English.
Simultaneous submission to journals, conferences or other workshops is not
permitted. Please use the EPTCS macro package and follow the instructions of
EPTCS, following the EPTCS style:
http://style.eptcs.org/
A submission may contain an appendix, but reading the appendix should not
be necessary to assess its merits. After the workshop authors are invited
to submit a full paper of their presentation. Accepted contributions will
appear in an issue of EPTCS.
* PROGRAM CHAIRS
Ugo Dal Lago (Universita di Bologna)
Russ Harmer (CNRS & ENS Lyon)
A CONFERENCE IN HONOUR OF PRAKASH PANANGADEN ON THE OCCASION OF HIS 60TH BIRTHDAY
23--25 May 2014, University of Oxford, UK
http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/pf2014
* PRAKASH
Prakash has made major contributions across a remarkably wide range of
topics, including probabilistic and concurrent computation, logic and
duality, and quantum information and computation. His work is
characterised by the qualities of elegance, clarity and concern for
fundamentals, and has been instrumental in making connections between
different research areas and communities. Equally important for his
many friends has been the infectious enthusiasm and enjoyment he
brings to his scientific work, and the generous and sustained support
and encouragement he has given to many junior colleagues.
* PROGRAMME
The workshop will feature talks by many of Prakash's friends and
collaborators. We anticipate that this will be a very enjoyable event,
blending fun and science - how could a meeting for Prakash be
otherwise! We warmly invite everyone to participate. Information on
how to register can be found on the conference web page.
* SPEAKERS
Abramsky / Brookes / Coecke / Danos / de Boer / Desharnais / Duncan
/ Gobault-Larrecq / Hayden / Jacobs / Jagadeesan / Jung / Kashefi /
Knight / Kozen / Kupke / Kwiatkowska / Larsen / Mardare / Mislove /
Ouaknine / Palamidessi / Plotkin / Precup / Rutten / Sadrzadeh / Scott
/ Selinger / Silva / Sorkin / van Breugel / Vicary / Winskel / Worrell / Ying
* SPRING SCHOOL
This event is twinned with a Spring School in Quantum Structures in
Physics and Computer Science, to be held on the dates 19--22 May 2014
at the University of Oxford:
http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/ss2014
12TH ASIAN SYMPOSIUM ON PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES AND SYSTEMS (APLAS 2014)
Call for Papers
17-19 November 2014, Singapore
http://www.math.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~garrigue/APLAS2014/
* INVITED SPEAKERS
Zhenjiang Hu (NII, Japan)
Dexter Kozen (Cornell University, USA)
Julien Verlaguet (Facebook, USA)
* BACKGROUND
APLAS aims to stimulate programming language research by providing a
forum for the presentation of latest results and the exchange of ideas
in programming languages and systems. APLAS is based in Asia, but is
an international forum that serves the worldwide programming language
community.
* TOPICS
The symposium is devoted to foundational and practical issues in
programming languages and systems. Papers are solicited on topics such
as
- semantics, logics, foundational theory;
- design of languages, type systems and foundational calculi;
- domain-specific languages;
- compilers, interpreters, abstract machines;
- program derivation, synthesis and transformation;
- program analysis, verification, model-checking;
- logic, constraint, probabilistic and quantum programming;
- software security;
- concurrency and parallelism;
- tools and environments for programming and implementation.
Topics are not limited to those discussed in previous symposiums.
Papers identifying future directions of programming and those
addressing the rapid changes of the underlying computing platforms
are especially welcome. Demonstration of systems and tools in the
scope of APLAS are welcome to the System and Tool presentations
category. Authors concerned about the appropriateness of a topic
are welcome to consult with the program chair prior to submission.
* SUBMISSION
We solicit submissions in two categories:
- Regular research papers - describing original scientific research
results, including tool development and case studies. Regular
research papers should not exceed 18 pages in the Springer LNCS
format, including bibliography and figures. They should clearly
identify what has been accomplished and why it is significant.
Submissions will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance,
correctness, originality, and clarity. In case of lack of space,
proofs, experimental results, or any information supporting the
technical results of the paper could be provided as an appendix or a
link to a web page, but reviewers are not obliged to read them.
- System and Tool presentations - describing systems or tools that support
theory, program construction, reasoning, or program execution in the
scope of APLAS. System and Tool presentations are expected to be
centered around a demonstration. The paper and the demonstration
should identify the novelties of the tools and use motivating
examples. System and Tool papers should not exceed 8 pages in the
Springer LNCS format, including bibliography and figures. Submissions
will be judged based on both the papers and the described systems or
tools. It is highly desirable that the tools are available on the
web.
Papers should be submitted electronically via the submission web page:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aplas2014
* DATES
Abstracts due: May 26, 2014 (Monday)
Submission due: June 2, 2014 (Monday)
Notification: August 6, 2014 (Wednesday)
Final paper due: September 1, 2014 (Monday)
Conference: November 17-19, 2014 (Monday-Wednesday)
* ORGANIZERS
General chair: Wei-Ngan Chin (National University of Singapore)
Program chair: Jacques Garrigue (Nagoya University)
24TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON LOGIC-BASED PROGRAM SYNTHESIS AND TRANSFORMATION (LOPSTR 2014)
Call for Papers
University of Kent, Canterbury, UK,
September 10-11, 2014
http://www.iasi.cnr.it/events/lopstr14/
* DEADLINES
Abstract submission: May 30, 2014
Paper/Extended abstract submission: June 6, 2014
* SERIES
The aim of the LOPSTR series is to stimulate and promote international
research and collaboration on logic-based program development. LOPSTR
is open to contributions in logic-based program development in any
language paradigm. LOPSTR has a reputation for being a lively,
friendly forum for presenting and discussing work in progress. Formal
proceedings are produced only after the symposium so that authors can
incorporate this feedback in the published papers.
The 24th International Symposium on Logic-based Program Synthesis and
Transformation (LOPSTR 2014) will be held at the University of Kent,
Canterbury, United Kingdom; previous symposia were held in Madrid,
Leuven, Odense, Hagenberg, Coimbra, Valencia, Lyngby, Venice, London,
Verona, Uppsala, Madrid, Paphos, London, Venice, Manchester, Leuven,
Stockholm, Arnhem, Pisa, Louvain-la-Neuve, and Manchester.
LOPSTR 2014 will be co-located with PPDP 2014 (International ACM SIGPLAN
Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming).
* TOPICS
Topics of interest cover all aspects of logic-based program
development, all stages of the software life cycle, and issues of both
programming-in-the-small and programming-in-the-large. Both full
papers and extended abstracts describing applications in these areas
are especially welcome. Contributions are welcome on all aspects of
logic-based program development.
Survey papers that present some aspects of the above topics from a new
perspective, and application papers that describe experience with
industrial applications are also welcome.
Papers must describe original work, be written and presented in
English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been
published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal,
conference, or workshop with refereed proceedings. Work that already
appeared in unpublished or informally published workshop proceedings
may be submitted (please contact the PC co-chairs in case of questions).
* IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission: May 30, 2014
Paper/Extended abstract submission: June 6, 2014
Notification: July 18, 2014
Camera-ready (for electronic pre-proceedings): August 25, 2014
Symposium: September 10-11, 2014
* PROGRAM CHAIRS
Maurizio Proietti IASI-CNR, Italy (Program Co-Chair)
Hirohisa Seki Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan (Program Co-Chair)
* SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS
Olaf Chitil and Andy King
School of Computing
University of Kent
CT2 7NF Kent, UK
* ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Emanuele De Angelis, University of Chieti-Pescara and IASI-CNR, Italy
Fabrizio Smith, IASI-CNR, Italy
27TH EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL IN LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION (ESSLLI 2015)
Call for Course and Workshop Proposals
August 3-14, 2015
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
http://esslli2015.org
* IMPORTANT DATES
1 June 2014: Proposal submission deadline
23 September 2014: Notification
June 2015: Course material due
* TOPICS AND FORMAT
Proposals for courses and workshops at ESSLLI'2015 are invited in all
areas of Logic, Linguistics and Computing Sciences.
Cross-disciplinary and innovative topics are particularly encouraged.
Each course and workshop will consist of five 90 minute sessions,
offered daily (Monday-Friday) in a single week. Proposals for
two-week courses should be structured and submitted as two
independent one-week courses, e.g. as an introductory course
followed by an advanced one. In such cases, the ESSLLI programme
committee reserves the right to accept just one of the two proposals.
* COSTS
All instructional and organizational work at ESSLLI is performed
completely on a voluntary basis, so as to keep participation fees to
a minimum. However, organizers and instructors have their
registration fees waved, and are reimbursed for travel and
accommodation expenses up to a level to be determined and
communicated with the proposal notification. ESSLLI can only
guarantee reimbursement for at most one course/workshop organizer,
and can not guarantee full reimbursement of travel costs for
lecturers or organizers from outside of Europe. The ESSLLI
organizers would appreciate any help in controlling the School's
expenses by seeking complete coverage of travel and accommodation
expenses from other sources.
* CATEGORIES
Each proposal should fall under one of the following categories.
FOUNDATIONAL COURSES
Such courses are designed to present the basics of a research
area, to people with no prior knowledge in that area. They should
be of elementary level, without prerequisites in the course's
topic, though possibly assuming a level of general scientific
maturity in the relevant discipline. They should enable
researchers from related disciplines to develop a level of
comfort with the fundamental concepts and techniques of the
course's topic, thereby contributing to the interdisciplinary
nature of our research community.
INTRODUCTORY COURSES
Introductory courses are central to ESSLLI's mission. They are
intended to introduce a research field to students, young
researchers, and other non-specialists, and to foster a sound
understanding of its basic methods and techniques. Such courses
should enable researchers from related disciplines to develop
some comfort and competence in the topic considered. Introductory
courses in a cross-disciplinary area may presuppose general
knowledge of the related disciplines.
ADVANCED COURSES
Advanced courses are targeted primarily to graduate students who
wish to acquire a level of comfort and understanding in the
current research of a field.
WORKSHOPS
Workshops focus on specialized topics, usually of current
interest. Workshops organizers are responsible for soliciting
papers and selecting the workshop programme. They are also
responsible for publishing proceedings if they decide to have
proceedings.
* PROPOSAL GUIDELINES
Proposals must be submitted in PDF format via:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esslli2015
* PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Achim Jung (Birmingham)
Language and Computation:
Aurelie Herbelot (Cambridge)
Stefan Mueller (Berlin)
Language and Logic:
Edgar Onea (Goettingen)
Galit Weidman-Sassoon (Bar-Ilan)
Logic and Computation:
Hubie Chen (Donostia-San Sebastian)
Stephan Kreutzer (Berlin)
* QUERIES
Please send any queries you may have to A.Jung@cs.bham.ac.uk
8TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON REACHABILITY PROBLEMS (RP2014)
22 - 24 September 2013
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/RP2014/
* VENUE
The Department of Computer Science will organize the 8th International
Workshop on Reachability Problems (RP'2014). This event will take place
at the Department in the centre of Oxford, 22 - 24 September 2014.
* TOPICS
Papers presenting original contributions related to reachability problems
in different computational models and systems are being sought. This will
also be the occasion to review recent breakthroughs by renown invited
experts and survey emerging trends and emphasize on key open challenges.
Participants are kindly encouraged to discuss on core scientific issues
that need to be further tackled. The Reachability Workshop is specifically
aimed at gathering together scholars from diverse disciplines and
backgrounds interested in reachability problems that appear in
- Algebraic structures
- Computational models
- Hybrid systems
- Logic and Verification
* INVITED SPEAKERS
- Byron Cook, UCL and Microsoft Research, UK.
- Kousha Etessami, University of Edinburgh, UK.
- Anca Muscholl, LaBRI Bordeaux, France.
- Sylvain Schmitz, LSV and ENS-Cachan, France.
* SUBMISSIONS
Papers presenting original contributions related to reachability problems
in different computational models and systems are being sought. Topics of
interest include (but are not limited to): Reachability for infinite state
systems, rewriting systems; Reachability analysis in counter/timed/cellular/
communicating automata; Petri-Nets; computational aspects of semigroups,
groups and rings; Reachability in dynamical and hybrid systems; frontiers
between decidable and undecidable reachability problems; complexity and
decidability aspects; predictability in iterative maps and new computational
paradigms. Authors are invited to submit a draft of a full paper with at
most 12 pages (in LaTeX, formatted according to LNCS guidelines) via the
conference web page. Proofs omitted due to space constraints must be put
into an appendix to be read by the program committee members at their
discretion. Submissions deviating from these guidelines risk rejection.
Electronic submissions should be formatted in pdf. Simultaneous submission
to other conferences or workshops with published proceedings is not allowed.
* IMPORTANT DATES
- Submission deadline: 4 June 2014
- Notification to authors: 4 July 2014
- Final version: 14 July 2014
- Workshop: 22 - 24 September 2014
* PRESENTATION-ONLY TRACK
In addition to regular papers that will appear in our LNCS proceedings,
we invite researchers to apply to give a presentation at RP 2014 without
an accompanying paper. Such presentations can be based on work that has
appeared (or which is going to appear) in the proceedings of another
conference, or which has not yet been submitted. These contributions will
be judged solely on the basis of their attractiveness to the workshop.
To apply to give such a presentation please submit a PDF file containing
a short abstract (up to two pages) by e-mail [ rp2014@easychair.org ]
by August 4th 2014, with subject "RP2014 Presentation-Only Track".
This abstract will not be published in the conference proceedings.
Notification for the presentation-only track will be August 11th 2014.
* PROCEEDINGS
The Conference Proceedings will be published as the volume of the Springer
Verlag LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) series and distributed at
the Conference. We plan also to publish selected papers in a special issue
of a high quality journal following the regular referee procedure.
11TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON DOMAINS AND APPLICATIONS (DOMAINS 2014)
Call for papers
September 8-10 2014
Paris, France
http://www.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~varacca/domains/Domains_XI
* The Workshop on Domains is aimed at computer scientists and
mathematicians alike who share an interest in the mathematical
foundations of computation.
* Topics of interaction with domain theory for this workshop
include, but are not limited to: program semantics;
program logics; probabilistic computation; exact computation
over the real numbers; lambda calculus; games; models of
sequential computation; constructive mathematics; recursion
theory; realizability; real analysis and computability;
topology, metric spaces and domains; idempotent analysis
and domains; locale theory; category theory; topos theory;
type theory. A special emphasis will be put on the following
topics: quasi-polish spaces; quantitative aspects in semantics.
* Important dates: abstract submission until June 15th, notification
shortly after. Abstracts should be 1 or 2 pages. Submission on
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=domains2014
* Proceedings: there will be a call for papers after the workshop.
The papers will be refereed according to normal publication
standards.
14TH WORKSHOP ON AUTOMATED VERIFICATION OF CRITICAL SYSTEMS (AVOCS 2014)
Call for Papers
http://www.utwente.nl/avocs2014
24-26th September, 2014
University of Twente, Netherlands
* AIMS
The aim of Automated Verification of Critical Systems (AVoCS) 2014 is
to contribute to the interaction and exchange of ideas among members
of the international research community on tools and techniques for
the verification of critical systems. The subject is to be interpreted
broadly and inclusively. It covers all aspects of automated
verification, including model checking, theorem proving, SAT/SMT
constraint solving, abstract interpretation, and refinement pertaining
to various types of critical systems which need to meet stringent
dependability requirements (safety-critical, business-critical,
performance-critical, etc.). Contributions that describe different
techniques, or industrial case studies are encouraged. The technical
programme will consist of invited and contributed talks and also allow
for short presentations of research ideas. The workshop will be
relatively informal, with an emphasis on discussion.
There are several studentships available in order to support PhD
students who wish to participate in the workshop.
* TOPICS
Topics include (but are not limited to)
- Model Checking
- Automatic and Interactive Theorem Proving
- SAT, SMT or Constraint Solving for Verification
- Abstract Interpretation
- Specification and Refinement
- Requirements Capture and Analysis
- Verification of Software and Hardware
- Specification and Verification of Fault Tolerance and Resilience
- Probabilistic and Real-Time Systems
- Dependable Systems
- Verified System Development
- Industrial Applications
* INVITED SPEAKERS
The workshop will have three invited speakers:
- Laura Kovacs (Chalmers, Sweden) will speak about automated assertion
generation.
- Alastair Donaldson (Imperial College, UK) will speak about verification
of OpenCL kernels.
- A third speaker will be announced soon.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Submission (abstract for full paper): 16th June 2014
Submission (full papers): 23rd June 2014
Notification (full papers): 30th July 2014
Submission (research ideas): 7th August 2014
Notification (research ideas): 14th August 2014
Submission of final versions: 1st September 2014
Workshop: 24-26th September 2014
* FULL PAPERS
Submissions of full papers to the workshop must not have
been published or be concurrently considered for publication
elsewhere. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on the
basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and
presentation quality, and relevance to the workshop. Final versions of
the papers must be written in English and not exceed 15
pages. Formatting details are provided on the website.
* RESEARCH IDEAS
AVoCS'14 encourages the submissions of research ideas
in order to stimulate discussions at the workshop. Reports on ongoing
work or surveys on work published elsewhere are welcome. The Programme
Committee will select research ideas on the basis of submitted
abstracts according to significance and general interest. Research
ideas must be written in English and not exceed 2 pages.
* PROCEEDINGS AND SPECIAL ISSUE
At the workshop, pre-proceedings will be available in the form of a
University of Twente Technical Report; this report will also include
the research ideas.
After the workshop, the authors of accepted full papers will have
about one month in order to revise their papers for publication in the
workshop post-proceedings which will appear in the Electronic
Communications of the EASST Open Access Journal. Research ideas will
not be part of the proceedings in the Open Access Journal.
We will invite authors of a selection of the best papers presented at
the workshop to submit extended versions of their work for publication
in a special issue of Elsevier's journal Science of Computer
Programming.
* PROGRAM CHAIRS
Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, Netherlands (co-chair)
Jaco van de Pol, University of Twente, Netherlands (co-chair)
* ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
Marieke Huisman
Wojciech Mostowski (publicity chair)
Jaco van de Pol
88TH WORKSHOP ON GENERAL ALGEBRA (AAA88)
June 19-22, 2014
Warsaw, Poland
http://www.mini.pw.edu.pl/aaa88
* LOCATION
The conference location is the new home of mathematics at the Warsaw
University of Technology. The meeting falls within the Stefan Banach
conference series. The scientific program will start on Friday, June 20,
2014, at 9.00, and end on Sunday, June 22, 2014, at 13.00.
The conference will be organized by the Algebra Group at the Warsaw
University of Technology. Support is provided by Warsaw University of
Technology and the Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center.
* TOPICS
The main topics of the conference are related to the traditional areas
of the AAA conferences, with special emphasis on the following:
1. Non-classical algebraic structures;
2. Universal algebra and lattice theory;
3. Applications of algebra in logic, combinatorics and computer science;
4. Classical algebraic structures, especially in connection with
universal-algebraic methods.
* PROGRAMME
The list of invited speakers includes:
- Ales Drapal, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Mai Gehrke, Universite Paris Diderot, Paris, France
- Katarzyna Korwin-Slomczynska, Pedagogical University in Krakow, Poland
- Jonathan D.H. Smith, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
- Agnes Szendrei, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA and Szegedi
Tudomanyegyetem, Hungary
- Mikhail Volkov, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia
The program will comprise several longer keynote plenary lectures, a number
of shorter plenary lectures, and a larger number of 20-minute contributed talks.
* FURTHER INFORMATION
The conference website has been set up at http://www.mini.pw.edu.pl/aaa88
Further information concerning the online registration and submission of
abstracts, conference fee, accommodation, possible financial support, and
conference proceedings will be provided on the conference website later.
The site will be updated regularly.
* ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
G. Binczak, T. Brengos, N. Dojer, A. Mucka, A. Pilitowska, A. Romanowska,
M. Stronkowski, A. Zamojska-Dzienio, M. Ziembowski
* SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
E. Aichinger, A. Pilitowska, A. Romanowska, J.D.H. Smith
26TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TOOLS WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (ICTAI 2014)
(pending IEEE approval)
Call for Papers
November 10-12, 2014, Limassol, Cyprus
http://ictai2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy
* AIMS AND SCOPE
The annual IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial
Intelligence (ICTAI) provides a major international forum where
the creation and exchange of ideas related to artificial intelligence
are fostered among academia, industry, and government agencies.
The conference facilitates the cross-fertilization of these ideas and
promotes their transfer into practical tools, for developing intelligent
systems and pursuing artificial intelligence applications. The ICTAI
encompasses all technical aspects of specifying, developing and
evaluating the theoretical underpinnings and applied mechanisms
of the AI-based components of computer tools such as algorithms,
architectures and languages.
* TOPICS
AI Foundations
AI in Domain Specific Applications
AI in Computer Systems
AI in Data Analytics and Big Data
Machine Learning and Data Mining
Knowledge Representation, Reasoning and Cognitive Modelling
AI and Decision Systems
Uncertainty in AI
* SUBMISSION
The submissions should contain original, high quality, not submitted
or published elsewhere work. Papers should be submitted electronically
through the EasyChair system in pdf format and should conform to IEEE
specifications (single-spaced, double-column, 10-point font size, up to 8
pages).
* PRESENTATION
Each accepted paper should be presented by one of the authors and
accompanied by at least one full registration fee payment, to guarantee
publication in the proceedings. All accepted papers will be included in
proceedings of ICTAI 2014 that will be published by the IEEE Computer
Society.
* IJAIT SPECIAL ISSUE
Extended versions of the best papers of the conference will be invited
for publication in a special issue of the International Journal on Artificial
Intelligence Tools (IJAIT) (SCI Indexed).
* IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: June 30, 2014
Paper notification: July 30, 2014
Camera-ready paper: August 30, 2014
* CONTACT
George A. Papadopoulos
Department of Computer Science
University of Cyprus
george-at-cs-dot-ucy-dot-ac-dot-cy
WORKSHOP ON LOGIC AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY STUDENT/POSTDOC PARTICIPATION FUNDING (LSB 5)
Call for Participation
A FLoC workshop at the Vienna Summer of Logic (VSL 2014)
Affiliated with CSL/LICS 2014
Vienna, Austria, July 13, 2014
http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/russell.harmer/lsb5.html
* The National Science Foundation of the United States is providing funds
to support the travel expenses of students and postdoctoral fellows attending
the Workshop on Logic and Systems Biology.
For further information contact James Lynch (jlynch@clarkson.edu).
7TH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON REWRITING (ISR 2014)
Call for Participation
August 25-29, 2014
Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria
Valparaiso, Chile
Co-located with the 21st Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation (WoLLIC 2014)
http://web.ing.puc.cl/~wollic
* REWRITING
Rewriting is a branch of computer science whose origins go back
to the origins of computer science itself (with Thue, Church,
Post, and many other prominent researchers). It has strong links
with mathematics, algebra, and logic, and it is the basis of
well-known programming paradigms like functional and equational
programming, which are taught at the universitary level in many
countries. In these programming paradigms and corresponding
languages, the notions of reduction, pattern matching,
confluence, termination, strategy, etc., are essential.
Rewriting provides a solid framework for understanding, using,
and teaching all these notions. Rewriting techniques are also
used in many other areas of software engineering (scripting,
prototyping, automated transformation of legacy systems,
refactoring, web services, etc.) and are implemented in popular
systems like Mathematica, Autocad, and others. Rewriting
techniques play a relevant role in computing research,
education, and industry.
* AIMS
The International School on Rewriting is promoted by the IFIP
Working Group 1.6 Term Rewriting. The school is aimed at master
and PhD students, researchers, and practitioners interested in
the study of rewriting concepts and their applications.
Two tracks are offered, including the lectures and the courses:
- Track A: for newcomers in the field, or just for people
who want to obtain a new, updated exposure.
- Track B: for those who want to get deeper in the most
recent developments and applications of rewriting.
* CONFIRMED LECTURERS
Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Universidade de Brasília, Brazil
Eduardo Bonelli, Universidad de Quilmes, Argentina
Claude Kirchner, INRIA, France
Helene Kirchner, INRIA, France
Aart Middeldorp. University of Innsbruck, Austria
Pierre-Etienne Moreau, École des Mines de Nancy, France
Camilo Rocha, Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería, Colombia
Johannes Waldmann, HTWK Leipzig, Germany
Sarah Winkler, University of Innsbruck, Austria
* PROGRAMME
The detailed programme can be found at:
http://isr2014.inf.utfsm.cl/programme
* REGISTRATION FEES
300 USD (early registration, until July 15, 2014)
400 USD (late registration, from July 16, 2014)
* INFORMATION
For more information, please visit our web site or contact
isr2014@inf.utfsm.cl
* ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, UNB, Brazil
Carlos Castro (chair), UTFSM, Chile
Nicolas Galvez, UTFSM, Chile
Claude Kirchner, INRIA, France
Alvaro Luzzi, UTFSM, Chile
Christophe Ringeissen, INRIA, France
Maria Elena Rodriguez, UTFSM, Chile
JOURNAL OF LOGIC AND ALGEBRAIC PROGRAMMING SPECIAL ISSUE ON FORMAL METHODS IN SOFTWARE PRODUCT LINE ENGINEERING
Call for Papers
http://ees.elsevier.com/jlap/
* SCOPE
This special issue of the Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming (JLAP)
is devoted, but by no means limited, to the themes of the FMSPLE workshop
series on formal methods and analysis in Software Product Line Engineering
(SPLE). This is an open call for papers, therefore participants of the
FMSPLE workshop series as well as others working on the themes of this
special issue, are strongly encouraged to submit contributions.
* AIMS
SPLE aims at developing a family of systems by reuse in order to reduce time
to market and to increase product quality. The general motivation is to
promote and stimulate the application of formal modelling and analysis
techniques to problems that originate from the SPLE domain, and to
strengthen in this way the ties between the SPLE community and theoretical
computer scientists and formal methods researchers seeking to apply
calculi, process algebras, type systems, logics, model checking,
type checking, theorem proving, constraint solving, and so forth.
Recent years have witnessed an increased application of formal modelling
and analysis techniques in SPLE and this is starting to make an impact,
as is confirmed by the growing number of papers that have been published
in a variety of high-profile formal methods, SPLE, and (fundamental)
software engineering conferences and journals.
* IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of papers: July 15, 2014
First review decision: December 15, 2014
Revision due: February 15, 2015
Acceptance notification: April 15, 2015
Final manuscript due: June 15, 2015
Expected publication: Summer 2015
* TOPICS OF INTEREST
We solicit original papers on topics within the general scope of
applying formal modelling and analysis techniques to software
product lines.
* SUBMISSION
We expect original articles (typically 20-30 pages; submission of
larger papers will be evaluated depending on editorial constraints)
that present high-quality contributions, which have not been previously
published elsewhere and that are also not simultaneously
submitted for publication elsewhere. All contributions must be written
in English, must be submitted in PDF format and must comply with JLAP's
author guidelines. Submissions are handled using the Elsevier Editorial
System and can be uploaded via the link http://ees.elsevier.com/jlap/
In the submission process, the authors must select the article type
"FMSPLE".
* GUEST EDITORS
Maurice ter Beek, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy
Dave Clarke, Uppsala University, Sweden & KU Leuven, Belgium
Ina Schaefer, Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany
FULL PROFESSORSHIP IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AT WARWICK
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AIP534/
* The Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick invites
applications from candidates with proven excellence in research in computer
science for the new opening as Professor in Computer Science.
Candidates are required to have a PhD in Computer Science or related
discipline, should be able to demonstrate excellent research in computer
science, should be capable of research leadership (to demonstrate an ability
to secure funded research grants and co-supervising MSc and PhD students
in Computer Science), and should have excellent teaching skills.
They should also demonstrate the ambition to play a leading role in the
Department of Computer Science. Special considerations will be given to
candidates with interdisciplinary interests and industrial research experience.
Contact Information: Professor Artur Czumaj (Head of Computer Science) at
A.Czumaj@warwick.ac.uk. Closing date: 22 May 2014.
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING VACANCY AT RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN
http://www.ru.nl/vacatures/details/details_vacature_0?recid=530914
* At the Radboud University we have a vacancy for a full-time assistant
professor Software Engineering (tenure track, associate professorship
may be considered). Application deadline May 1, 2014.
* Responsibilities
- to conduct research in one or more ICIS research areas (see below).
ICIS’ main areas of research are Security, Model Based Systems and
Intelligent Systems. The professorial staff at ICIS includes Bart Jacobs,
Frits Vaandrager, Peter Lucas, Tom Heskes and Herman Geuvers.
- teaching activities will be in the area of software engineering. A number
of courses in software engineering are constructed around a student run
'company', GipHouse, which produces real software products for real clients
under the supervision of Marko van Eekelen. You will also be expected to
supervise BSc, MSc and PhD theses. Some contribution to our extensive
outreach programme towards school children and the general public would be
appreciated. Administrative duties will include local and/or national
committee memberships.
* Work environment
The ICIS institute received an excellent rating in the latest national
research evaluation exercise for computer science (2010). ICIS has
educational programmes in both Information Science and Computer Science.
In 2014 the Computer Science Bachelor's and Master's programmes ranked
first, both in the Elsevier Magazine rankings and in the Dutch university
information guide KeuzeGids Universiteiten, in which the Computer Science
Master's programme also received the 'TOP' classification. Specific
educational tracks are Security, Software Science, Data Science, eHealth
and Mathematical Foundations.
* Contact
Marko van Eekelen by phoning +31 24 3653410 or mailing M.vanEekelen@cs.ru.nl
POSTDOCTORAL POSITION AT ENS LYON
http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/PLUME/
* A 12-month post-doctoral position is available in the Plume team
of the LIP laboratory at ENS de Lyon. The position is cofunded by
the ANR project RECRE and the LIP laboratory. Research conducted
in Plume team covers various aspects of programming languages semantics
and logic in computer science.
* "RECRE" stands for "Realizability for classical logic, concurrency,
references and rewriting". The project also includes topics relevant
to the Curry-Howard correspondence, such as denotational semantics,
linear logic, proof theory and type theory.
For this position, we will welcome applications in topics relevant
to RECRE, as well as at their intersection with other fields of logic
and computer science such as program verification or logic and
automata.
* Salary: around 2000 euros net per month.
Starting date: September 1st 2014
Applications: please send, before *May 4th 2014* a CV together with
a one-page cover letter to Colin Riba.
For any question, please contact Colin Riba.
* Contacts:
- Colin Riba: colin.riba@ens-lyon.fr
- Plume team: http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/PLUME/
POSTDOCTORAL POSITION AT QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
http://www.jobs.qmul.ac.uk/4740
* Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position in the area of
semantics-based software verification, on the EPSRC-funded project
"Program Reasoning with Nominal Game Semantics". We are looking for
candidates with a strong background in programming language semantics
and/or topics in verification, who can contribute to the design and
implementation of program logics for higher-order programs.
The project will be led by Nikos Tzevelekos. Other members of the School
at Queen Mary working on related topics include Dino Distefano, Pasquale
Malacaria, Michael Tautschnig and Greta Yorsh.
* Duration: 16 months
Salary: GBP 31,113 - 34,626 pa
Deadline: 17 May 2014
* Informal enquiries (nikos.tzevelekos@qmul.ac.uk) are very welcome.
TWO PHD POSITIONS IN INFORMATION SECURITY AT ETH ZURICH, SWITZERLAND
http://www.infsec.ethz.ch/news/positions
* The Information Security group headed by Prof. David Basin at ETH
Zurich has two open PhD positions in two projects:
(1) Formalizing computational soundness for protocol implementations
(2) Testing access control systems
* We are looking for enthusiastic outstanding researchers with a strong
background and interest in one or more of the following areas:
- formal methods or mathematical logic,
- information security or cryptography,
- (project 1) interactive theorem proving
(project 2) software testing.
Candidates with a strong theoretical background in related areas are
also encouraged to apply. ETH Zurich regulations require PhD
candidates to hold a Masters or equivalent degree (e.g. Diplom). The
preferred starting date for both positions is as soon as possible, at
the latest by the end of 2014.
* Contact: Andreas Lochbihler and Mohammad Torabi Dashti
infsec.positions@inf.ethz.ch
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